Jasper Yi CaoPhotography
Horizon, I know you are a ship that will never anchor
Loveletters, Fireworks and Time Travle
A Transoceanic Imagination: Midsummer, 1994
Memory of salt
Pink, Pink
Connected and Estranged Relatives
Physical, intimate
Lyrical Miniature
Between the Wall
Distortion
仙人掌诗人在乱叫 Howling Cactus: Independent Photography & Publishing
01: And then the traces disappeared
02: No words wander here
2/5: Personal Preference
03: Still can't turn to the left
04: Touch us here, in the wrong place
Publication
Lyrical Miniature
Loveletters, Fireworks and Time Travle ( with PNPRESS )
第二支矛 The second spear ( with HAKUCHI )
Untitled, Unsent letter
Curation
Fiction, Vision, MirrorBook Design
一百年太久 So Long ( for Yao Meng)
缀断耳语 Episodic Murmuring ( with Stasis Space, for Yiwei )
神游 Spirt Away ( with Automatic studio )
使者的云 Obscurities ( for Yao Meng & Vera Xia )
Nonsense ( for Choi Hui )
Game of Photos ( for Cai Dongdong )
Fissure of a Sweet dreame ( for Jialin Yan )
Random Access to Memory ( for Tengteng Da )
最后的人 The last of us ( for RyeWave )
目之所至 As far as we can see 2022 ( for athaartspace )
目之所至 As far as we can see 2023 ( for athaartspace )
青灯
一种平静 ( for Wang Xin )
Life-Place ( for Yesheng )
Picnic ( for Uqbar )
俎 Zood ( for Tengteng Da )
Decision ( for Bian Yachun )
Journey of Perplexity ( for Lei Bai )
Water, Elsewhere ( for Jianuan Xu )
The Evil Dragon Was Defeated in Winter ( for Shu Zhang )
CV
Jasper Yi Cao (b. 1998, Changsha, China) is a photographic artist and book designer based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Her work explores the intersection of archives, memory, and collective experience in contemporary Chinese society.
Blending photography, handmade books, and darkroom techniques, she constructs non-linear visual narratives. She is also the founder of a design studio and co-founder of the “Howling Cactus” photography group, through which she has published magazines, exhibited internationally, and supported self-publishing. Her practice spans image-making, editorial design, and independent publishing, with a focus on history, memory, and the poetics of time.
jasper.caoyi@gmail.com
Instagram: cao1caoyi PhotographyHorizon, I know you are a ship that will never anchor
Residency Niort Villa Perochon RJPI 2025
Niort, France
2025photograph,
installation,
photobook
This project originates from travel photos in my family album.
Before I was born, my family had taken many photos during seaside trips, spanning the southern and northern coasts of China.
Inspired by these images, I set out to find and photograph similar scenes around Niort and nearby coastal cities, then cropped, collaged, and assembled them together.
The endless coastline seems to stretch beyond sight, yet across the sky, they somehow reconnect.
The eastern sea is also the western sea.
Standing on the deck of a cruise ship in La Rochelle, I watched my own shadow lifted and carried away by the rising waves.
My grandmother had never been to Europe. In that fleeting moment by the coast, I wished she could be there with me, looking at the same sea.
Horizon, I think you are a ship that will never anchor.
I imagined Hainan’s Haikou in 1997 — The crowds, the seagulls, and the endless layers of umbrellas.
Exhibition in Mediatheque, Niort, France, May 2025
Exhibition in Mediatheque, Niort, France, May 2025Exhibition in Mediatheque, Niort, France, May 2025Exhibition in Mediatheque, Niort, France, May 2025